Sherlock Holmes

Bibliography

William S. Baring-Gould, The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2 vol. (1967, reissued 2 vol. in 1, 1992), remains the standard scholarly edition of Conan Doyle’s adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Jack Tracy (compiler and ed.), The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana: or, A Universal Dictionary of the State of Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes and His Biographer John H. Watson, M.D. (1977; also published as The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia, 1997), provides a remarkable companion volume of detailed and easily retrievable knowledge about the Holmes adventures. Ronald Burt De Waal, The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Classified and Annotated List of Materials Relating to Their Lives and Adventures (1974), and its companion volumes, The International Sherlock Holmes (1980) and The Universal Sherlock Holmes (1994), give information about particular themes of the “higher criticism” on Holmes.